How Provis built My Daily Polls, a polling platform where users create polls and others respond.
My Daily Polls is a small social-network-style platform for collecting public opinion on topics such as politics and elections. Users have accounts, create polls, respond and give feedback, and are notified when new polls are published. Provis built it.
- User accounts
- Polls
- Responses
- Notifications
Client: My Daily PollsPolling platformA place to ask a question and hear what people think.
- Own polls
- anyone with an account can start one
- Users ask the questions they care about, so the site is never short of topics
- Responses
- and feedback on each poll
- Others answer and comment, and every answer is collected
- Alerts
- when a new poll is published
- The users it matters to hear about it, so they come back and vote
At a glance
- The platform
A small social-network-style polling platform for collecting opinions on topics such as politics and elections.
- What Provis built
User accounts, user-created polls, responses and feedback, notifications to relevant users when a poll is published, and the collection of responses for opinion analysis.
- Today
An older project, delivered and handed over.
- Client
- My Daily Polls
- Industry
- Social and polling: collecting public opinion
- Services
- Web app development: accounts, polls, responses, notifications
- Status
- An older project built by Provis
A platform for gathering public opinion.
My Daily Polls needed to let users create polls, collect responses and gather opinions on topics such as politics and elections.
It works like a small social network built around polls. Users have accounts and a user base. Anyone with an account can create a poll, and others respond and give feedback. When a new poll is published, the relevant users are notified, and the responses are collected so opinion can be analysed.
How an online poll usually runs without a platform
- A question is postedon a page or in a group
- Answersare scattered across comments
- People who careare never told a new poll is up
- Countingis done by hand
A typical flow for businesses like this, not a record of this client.
What usually slows a polling platform down
Problems Provis often sees in projects like this, and how it fixes them.
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Few people take part
If voting takes many steps, most visitors leave before they answer.
How Provis approaches itOne-tap votingA poll shows its answers on one screen, and a vote is a single tap.
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People miss new polls
Without a nudge, users forget to come back.
How Provis approaches itAlerts for the right usersWhen a poll is published, the users it matters to are told.
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Answers are hard to read
A pile of raw responses does not tell anyone what people think.
How Provis approaches itResults collected in one placeResponses and feedback are gathered for each poll, so opinion can be looked at together.
How Provis runs a platform project
- Discovery and auditProvis looks at what exists today, and agrees with you what to fix or build first
- Build or fixThe work is done in small pieces you can see and review as they land
- Test and launchEverything is checked on phones and desktops, and on real data, before it goes live
- SupportAfter launch Provis monitors, fixes and improves, around the clock
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Plan the journey: agree what a user does first: sign up, vote, ask a question, and what they are told.
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Build in small pieces: accounts, polls, answers and alerts are built and shown to you one at a time.
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Test at load: a poll can bring many people at once, so the platform is tested for busy moments.
Our approach:
Make the first vote effortless.
A platform grows when taking part is easy, so Provis starts from the user's first tap.
Every Provis build comes with 24/7 monitoring and support after launch.
How Provis builds web platformsWhat a polling platform like this looks like on a phone.
Illustrative screens, designed in My Daily Polls' style, as they would look on a phone. They use dummy data only.
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Today's pollPick an answer and vote
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Create a pollAsk your own question
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ResultsBars and feedback
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Past pollsWhat people said before
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AlertsNew polls and replies
An older project, with no live link here.
The platform was delivered and handed over, and this page does not link to it.
Status
Delivered and handed over.
My Daily Polls is an older project that Provis built.
The work covered user accounts, polls, responses and feedback, notifications, and the collection of responses for opinion analysis.
Provis has delivered 200+ projects since 2012, with a team of 25+ engineers, designers, QA and project leads.
How every Provis project runs
- One project leadyour single point of contact
- A written weekly update and a demoof what was built that week
- A staging link and your repoyou see the work as it is built; the code goes straight into your repo
- QA before launchour QA team tests every feature
- Yours from day onecode repo, cloud account and domain in your company's name; our team joins as collaborators, and you can remove access at any time
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